bedizen
verb (used with object)
to dress or adorn in a showy, gaudy, or tasteless manner.
bedizenment
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a word derived from
bedizen.
Example Sentences
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From the Hôtel du Chancelier the winter view over the bright, beautiful city, glittering only yesterday in its winter bedizenment of frost and snow, was changed.
From A Modern Mercenary by K. (Kate) Prichard
She transacted her business, went to a shop and purchased out of one of Florence's sovereigns some gay ribbons and laces for her own bedizenment, and then returned home.
From A Bunch of Cherries A Story of Cherry Court School by L. T. Meade
Not white sunlight: something operatic; a kind of rosepink, artificial bedizenment.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
Not white sunlight: something operatic; a kind of rose-pink, artificial bedizenment.
From On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
The bed was a big four-poster, which no bedizenment could bring within the fashion of the day.
From The Raid of The Guerilla and Other Stories by Charles Egbert Craffock
